Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

When things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on