Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.
It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.
Wealth is the sinews of success.
Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.
Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.
The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.
Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.
[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.
Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.
It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.