A person’s stature ought to be measured not by how tall he has grown but by how often he has had to bow, and how low, in the process.
Sophisticated “believers” politely undermine other people’s religious beliefs; fanatics do this curtly. Who is more honest?
One who has yet to fail has yet to take a worthy challenge.
If you are reading this you can’t possibly complain: mobile phone, internet, English, time to read, friends…Count blessings!
Every sacrifice is basically intelligent selfishness.
Unifiers like Lincoln, Gandhi, Mandela unite people and leave a more harmonious world behind than the one they inherited. Polarizers, like Hitler, are apt to leave fractured humanity as their devisive legacy.
A society where successes – in politics, business, religion – come with fundamental compromises is a decayed society. Its “successfuls” are the scum of the earth.
You cannot serve until you begin to enjoy suffering.
Sorrow is essential to nature, joy is a slow by-Product.
Religion helps facilitate our insensitivity towards human suffering and live selfishly without guilt by blaming it on God.