At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important. . . so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.
Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.
It is better to copulate than never.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects.
In the Atma all are one. Remember that Unity. Live in that Unity. Make that your goal. All are one. . . be alike to everyone.
There is no growth without change, and there is no change without loss.
Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.