“Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your ‘joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.”

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Failure isn’t loss, its growth, success and wisdom.

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and ’60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that’s where I got my first taste for music.

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.