Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted - and that's what all conditioning is.
Transformation in vision and consciousness will automatically create favorable circumstances.
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Macho does not prove mucho.
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
The funny thing about driving your car off a cliff, I bet you're still hitting those brakes.
