wisdom

"How many people you bless is how you measure success"

"Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans."

"Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all."

"I don't understand people who say they need more "Me Time."What other time is there? Do these people spend part of their day in someone else's body?"

"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."

"To be angry is easy, but to forgive is hard. That's why to love is easy, and to love is hard. I try to be so hard that I'm soft, like a liquid rock, fluid and forgiving, but unmovable in my resolve."

"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."

"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."

"Cleverness is not wisdom."

"Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results."

"Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now..."

"That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea."

"Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse"

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

"Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly."

"Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out."

"I do not know everything; still many things I understand."

"Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning."

"The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence."

"Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for underperformers."