We must keep up our studies even as civilization collapses around us.
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His...
Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard wo...
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...
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?
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.