Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.