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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.