"My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes."
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"Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven"
"If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect."
"We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way."
"A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort"
"I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way."
"The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find."
"Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals."
"The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie."
"I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should."
"It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. I am not limited by any past thinking. I choose my thoughts with care. I constantly have new insights and new ways of looking at my world. I am willing to change and grow."
"Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it"
"The fastest way to bring more wonderful examples of abundance into your personal experience is to take constant notice of the wonderful things that are already there."
"There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me."
"Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy."
"There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief."
"In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all."
"It's not what you give, it's the way you give it."
"Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways."
"The way you see me is the way I am."