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"We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may."
"If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation"
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us"
"I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition. I know exactly what to do in every situation. There is an inspiration within me which governs every act, every thought, with certainty, with conviction and in peace."
"Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent."
"If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped."
"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."
"Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life."
"If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love."
"When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers."
"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
"Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart."
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
"To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?"
"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."
"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."
"Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!"
"Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence"
"I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all."
"All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam."
