All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.
If ever I was running, it was towards you.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
You are worth more than what people say or think of you.
The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions a...
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.