You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
It has to be done in an appropriate way, so that nobody thinks it is a backdoor approach to have intergovernmental regulation for something that ought not to be regulated.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Whatever I do, when all is said and done, I do for or to myself. Perhaps I should think before I perform actions because after the seed of action is sown I have to reap the fruit. Moreover, I do not receive only one fruit for every seed sown, I often get a whole crop, good or bad according to the action or seed.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponents fate.
If at any time I begin to lose hope in myself, let me simply look inside my heart and see all the good actions I have ever performed, from the smallest to the
grandest. When I see how much happiness I have given, I easily remember the purpose of my life.
