Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.
It is clear to me that the racism was on the other foot, that really, society in Europe was much more racist - vis-à-vis Arabs at least and black Africans - than American society.
Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.
Don’t initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.