Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

May love fill your heart, compassion guide your mind, faith rule your soul.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.

The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.

In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The only people who can say they have renounced the fruit are those who, thus equipped, feel no desire for the results of the conquest, and remain absorbed in combat. You can renounce the fruit, but this renunciation does not mean indifference toward the result.

All life battles teach us something, even those we lose