Never Let Your Fears Be The Boundaries

We Can Often Endure An Extra Pound Of Pain Far More Easily Than We Can Suffer The Withdrawal Of An Ounce Of Accustomed Pleasure.

It Is Not Only Useless, It Is Harmful, To Believe In Oneself Until One Truly Knows Oneself. And To Know Oneself Means To Accept Our Moments Of Insanity, Of Eccentricity, Of Childishness And Blindness.

What The Ordinary Person Means By A 'miracle' Is Some Gross Distortion Or Suspension Of The Laws Of Nature... But Life Itself Strikes Him As Commonplace, When In Truth A Blade Of Grass Or A Neuron In The Brain Is A Greater Miracle.

People Who Won't Help Others In Trouble "because They Got Into Trouble Through Their Own Fault" Would Probably Not Throw A Lifeline To A Drowning Person Until They Learned Whether That Person Fell In Through His Or Her Own Fault Or Not.

American Parents, On The Whole, Do Not Want Their Sons To Be Artisans Or Craftsmen, But Business Or Professional People. As A Result, Millions Of Youngsters Are Being Prepared For Careers They Have Little Aptitude For - And Little Interest In Except For Dubious Prestige.