~ Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation. ~
~ I could do nothing without problems, they toughen me my mind. In fact I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me; but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me. ~
~ If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ~
~ Just as the absence of clouds does not mean the end of the sky, neither is an empty mind the end of knowing. ~
~ Guilt is never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion. ~
~ The unattended mind lives with unending wants, while the awakened mind understands that its own watchfulness is the fullness it seeks. ~
~ Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, the are not easily eradicated. ~