When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.