Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
We do not possess imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
Being against evil doesn’t make you good.
I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.
Imagination means nothing without doing.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Business people are like sharks, not just because we’re gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar – this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one’s own mind.
