A man is what he thinks about all day long.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
It is impossible, therefore, that any arguments from experience can prove this resemblance of the past to the future; since all these arguments are founded on the supposition of that resemblance. Let the course of things be allowed hitherto ever so regular; that alone, without some new argument or inference, proves not that, for the future, it will continue so.
Spend some time alone every day.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
That is the true genius of America , a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.
If you cannot explain it simply, you dont understand it well enough
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
To climb upwards will be easier if you take others with you.
Practice makes you perfect so be careful what you practice!
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
