I have no intention of sharing my authority.
Life is supposed to get tough.
I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.
My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting educational establishment and years of racial preferences black students are worse off than ever.
Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos, human factors more than resources. So, how to avoid that? There’s a lack of human maturity. So it’s not been a fertile exercise to perfect yourself to some extent before you serve others, otherwise it’s like cutting the wheat when it’s still green. And nobody is fed by that. So we need a minimum of readiness to efficiently and wisely be at the service of others. So compassion needs also to be sort of enlightened by wisdom. Otherwise, it’s blind.
I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough. ” Her eyes were wide and bleak. “How am I supposed to live with that?