"But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions."
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"Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success."
"I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love."
"Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way."
"Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another."
"Science is a way to not fool ourselves."
"False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words."
"I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way."
"If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence."
"Tell me what you are for, and I will show you what is going to expand in a positive way. Tell me what you are against, and I can show you what is going to expand in a destructive way."
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
"Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors."
"The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them."
"I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?"
"My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that."
"There is more than one way to burn a book."
"Loving myself exactly where I am is the only way to get where I'm going"
"The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter."
"Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life."
"There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it."