My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

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.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Renown and repose do not go together.