Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.
If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.
I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness. . . has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing. . . . this position of seeing them (the objects, fh) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life.
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to. . . action without any selfish attachment to the results.
Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.