How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -Vincent Van Gogh.

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose , the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

If life deals you a lemon, make lemonade.

The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one.

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy metal music is illogical. It makes just as much sense to reason like this: some nuns like soccer; violence sometimes occurs at soccer matches; therefore, nuns tend to be violent.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've molded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you've made your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these new concepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You and the concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have become them.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.