Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.
People should be talking about "yoga asanas" as a competive sport. Because there are many forms of yoga. The most common two forms are hatha yoga and raja yoga. That's mostly what people understand.
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.