If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them