Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and
forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark read more

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and
forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of
death.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit
with dignity all the days read more

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit
with dignity all the days of his life.

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, read more

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams -- even if it takes a lifetime.

I just wake up and say, "You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.".

I just wake up and say, "You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.".

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.