More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good.
Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?. . . So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.
Michael Roberts is a great rider and a great tactician; he was always using his brain in a race. His determination to become champion jockey was unswerving. He worked night and day, day and night to do it. You must have tunnel vision to become champion jockey: you must almost block everything else out, and he did that perfectly.
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.
A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.