To change everything, simply change your attitude.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.