Wisdom

To enhance your inner beauty, harmonize your mind and thoughts with nature through meditation.

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

If you stretch your soul, you will find your sacred spirit.

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects by constant study of human nature.

I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

Sunglasses are the best invention of world.Its hide the eyes which speak more then lips.

When women agree with me I always do the other thing.

Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....

The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.

Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience.

How few are our real wants and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.

It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty.

All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.

In the silence, whether we listen to the creation around us, the words of revelation, or the deepest stirrings of our own hearts, we begin to perceive another voice, one that is too often lost in the static of life. It is no use saying: ”Speak, Lord, your servant wants to hear,” if We never risk the silence to listen. 48.