“A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.”
“Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”
“Every step I take in light is mine forever.”
“Learn to ask of all actions, “Why are they doing that?” Starting with your own.”
“It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.”
“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.”
“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”
“And now I understand something so frightening, and wonderful — how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.”
“The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.”
