If you’re afraid – don’t do it, – if you’re doing it – don’t be afraid.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.