Whatever you have set your mind on shapes your lifestyle and character. What
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.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
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.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
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.
The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.
what is not true does not exist in this moment.