I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

“My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. And their passing moods may reflect the passing moods of others.”

“To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.”

“I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

“Not all creatures can become as great as they think.”

“Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave”

“Self-help is the best help”

“The north wind and the sun were disputing which was the stronger, and agreed to acknowledge as the victor whichever of them could strip a traveler of his clothing. The wind tried first. But its violent gusts only made the man hold his clothes tightly around him, and when it blew harder still the cold made him so uncomfortable that he put on an extra wrap. Eventually the wind got tired of it and handed him over to the sun. The sun shone first with moderate warmth, which made the man take off his topcoat. Then it blazed fiercely, till, unable to stand the heat, he stripped and went off to a bathe in a nearby river. Persuasion is more effective than force. ”

“Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most”

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did and never can carry us beyond our own persons, and it is by the imagination only that we form any conception of what are his sensations...His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have this adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels.”

“Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back”

“Religionizing" only one part of life secularizes the rest of it.”

“Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.”

“Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.”

“If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.”

“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”

The tongue is a small thing, but can speak great hurts!

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species.

The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.

“Adventures always come to the adventurous, there's no doubt about that!”