A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.
The best fantasy writer are the ones that stopped fighting with their inner demons, and started writing about them.
Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
If you are honest, you will live life safely. But if you are dishonest, you will get hurt.
Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time.
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
The tongue has the power of life and death.
To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.
The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.
Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.
It’s hard to be driven when you’re being driven.
Love is the X-factor in healing!
I believe you came into the world to accomplish something, and that the something you came to accomplish is not small or insignificant, that’s not worthy of you. You came here to make a major contribution to life on this planet.
If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.
I’m a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of ‘employee.’
Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man’s most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.
I am inclined to believe that if there can be a meaningful human right to any material thing, surely it starts with access to minimum clean freshwater.
In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made.
All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it’s wonderful.