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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.