If you won't improve yourself, who will?
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. . . . In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
I suppose that the sympatheticunsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.
Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light.
By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence. . . converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.
The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.