When your views on the world and your intellect are being challenged
and you begin to feel uncomfortable because of read more

When your views on the world and your intellect are being challenged
and you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you've
detected that is threatening your current model of the world or some
aspect of it, pay attention. You are about to learn something. This
discomfort and intellectual conflict is when learning is taking place.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All
these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my read more

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All
these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am
in the house and I have the key.