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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

No one wants advice only corroboration. The Winter of Our Discontent.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.

Civilization rests on a set of promises, if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises, if hope and faith go, everything goes.

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.

If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed. And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.