Issue 292
- I believe that you control your destiny,
that you can be what you want to be.
You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it,
I won't behave his way anymore.
I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I
have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.'
- Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment,
and learn again to exercise his will and his personal responsibility.
- The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic;
the passions that we feel expand it,
those that we inspire contract it;
and habit fills up what remains.
- As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house,
passion will break through an unreflecting mind.
As rain does not break through a well-thatched house,
passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind.
- How can I be useful.
Of what service can I be.
There is something inside me.
What can it be?
- One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to
lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- To give real service, you must add something
which cannot be bought or measured with money.
- As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and
the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one
of the God who is formless and eternal.
- The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours
is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
- I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.