I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.
If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
Living life without a goal is like sailing the sea without a compass.
The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.