You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
Joy is the life of man's life.
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
Avoid debt that doesn’t pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.
Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.
It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.
There is no difference between an ISIS gunman and an American gunman that goes into a mosque, or the gunman Baruch Goldstein who went into the mosque in Bethlehem and killed 29 guys about fifteen years ago. Goldstein took his service weapon and tried to kill everybody in the mosque. He shot over a hundred people. There's no monopoly on terrorism. Terrorism experts know this and we live according to that.