The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.
Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.
Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.
Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.