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"If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence."
"She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot"
"For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men."
"There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."
"I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same."
"Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe."
"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."
"To love God is something greater than to know Him."
"Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of."
"Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born."
"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written."
"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."
"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
"We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories."
"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."
"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen."
"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life."
"The landscape changes, so enjoy it: of course, you have to have an objective in mind - to reach the top. But as you are going up, more things can be seen, and it's no bother to stop now and again and enjoy the panorama around you. At every meter conquered, you can see a little further, so use this to discover things that you still had not noticed."
"The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful."
"I exist as I am, that is enough."
