Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Do to others what you would have them do to you."
The source of the famous "Golden Rule." Many famous read more

Do to others what you would have them do to you."
The source of the famous "Golden Rule." Many famous lines were variations on this theme. - Matthew 7:12.

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result read more

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no read more

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.