Society and the World

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I’d like to live as a poor man, with lots of money.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing that it is stupid.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

To wish to be well is part of becoming well.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

Life is a great adventure, or it is nothing.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give our thought to the body.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.