The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease.

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

How much others love you is not very important, but how much you love yourself will define your success.

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his...

No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my...

The Great Way is not named; Great Discriminations are not spoken; Great Benevolence is not benevolent; Great Modesty is not humble; Great Daring does not attack. If the Way is made clear, it is not...

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?

Every journey has its own traveler. Every dream has its own dreamer. We are all belonged to a specific journey and dream. Some people are currently looking for it, some people are just figuring it...

Whatever you expect, you will get. So expect success, not regret.

Díjele que entre nosotros existía una sociedad de hombres educados desde su juventud en el arte de probar con palabras multiplicadas al efecto que lo blanco es negro y lo negro es blanco, según para...

Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek they all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate,...

I came. I saw the enormous possibilities and power of the human mind. It is the biggest plot of fertile land in the world. We just have to find the right see and the right...

The process of spreading a philosophy by means of free discussion among thinking adults is long and complex. From Plato to the present, it has been the dream of social planners to circumvent this process...

Perhaps this was the first instance of that quiet way of “speaking for” a place not yet occupied, or at least not improved as much as it may be, which their descendants have practised, and...

Spend your money for education; it will pay you the best dividend. No one will be able to steal is and you will not lose it for a second.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

An honest and wise man is always a very simple man.

[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances...

Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are...

His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting on the stump under the burden of his father’s death and even the...

Success is a way of life, which progressively expands your joyfulness, happiness, and fulfillment.

I have two enemies in all the world, Two twins, inseparably fused:The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full.

Plant the seeds of trust and compassionMake caring and sharing a life’s missionHold hand with dreams of greatness Peace will grow with beauty and fragrance.

You are not who you think.You’re not even the thinker.You are the one conscious of the thought.

When you will create peace within yourself, world will be a peaceful place.

CHALLENGE – Instead of losing motivation, empower yourself to prove detractors wrong

We can do more for the peace just by changing our thoughts. Be an example of compassion and kindness like Mother Teresa. We all can do that without harming anyone.

FRACTURED FACTIONSMany cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

If every one of us spreads the message of love, compassion, kindness and forgiveness, peace will be there.

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

To find the inner peace be utmost honest to yourself.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

To find the peace, learn to trust.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

There is nothing better than love, kindness and forgiveness to create enduring peace.

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

Most of the movies are working like, ‘Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut’ and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information – I try to involve,...

To change yourself, change the perception and mindset.

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

Veel van wat aanvankelijk alleen in de verbeelding bestaat, wordt werkelijkheid.

We need someone to thank and someone to blame; thus the concept of God and the Devil. We can’t accept that everything that happens to us, is our own doing.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it...