“I take very few people seriously, and I m not one of them.”
“I m lazy, I like to do it right the first time.”
“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.”
“Things to know from books to read”
“Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.”
“A oportunidade de fazer o mal aparece cem vezes por dia e a de fazer bem, uma vez por ano, diz Zoroastro.”
“A man s final query is determined by how well he acts under pressure. If man can control his demeanor under extreme stress, he will be judged in a positive way.”
“The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn t follow you home and park your car.”
“The Truth Is That I Was Recognized For Stubbornness And Not Goodness. Even, Though I Was Very Intelligent And Sent To School By A Little Few Supports From Sponsors And My Mother. My Brain Was Never Ever Cool. Due To All The Mistakes I Saw From A Very Tender Age From All Those Whom I Looked Upon As Elders And Shinning Examples. Although They Where Some Good Examples Which Still Live On. Still The Early Damaged As Already Been Done. So It Led Me Dropping Out Of School In To Working And Using The Great Ancient Vedic Philosophies I Have Been Hearing From The Very Beginning Of My Conception In My Mother Womb Till The Day I Was Born And Forever. I Used Them All To Materialize Many Of My Dreams And Practice Mysticism Coupled With Spiritualism To Keep My Self Secured And Keep Cool Depending On God.”
“There isn t music without rhythm; have a soul that won t leave your lips without a song.”
“IMAGES : THEY EITHER GUIDE/MISGUIDE YOU . IT IS THE ORIENTATION / ALIGNMENT OF MIND THAT NEEDS TO BE TUNED TO FRAME THE TRUE IMAGES.”
“For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.”
“And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.”
“Everyone tells us to be one in a million... What they don t tell us is that being one in a million also means being one against a million.”
“Is that man s fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?”
“All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.”
“Figuring out what to do with your life is only Half of the equation, the more important half is, whom you are doing it with”