I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.
The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.
Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.
It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.
The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.
Cheese. The adult form of milk.