Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.
And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?
It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it. [. . . ] To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.