When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
He who laughs, lasts!
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.