i’ll try to understand when you go down on your knees in front of a man

the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

what you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want

and if you tolerate this your children will be next

be thoughtful. not to be a martyr or doormat to be trod upon, but to be aware of other people and their needs. to meet others with awareness and within your own framework be able to meet them halfway and on occasion go the other half joyfully.

our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds

perfection is to be what we pretend to be

there is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it

we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat

it struck her for a moment that she would be happy if everything was dark and empty like this, if there was no one at all in the world, just this stillness and almost perfect silence, and if it would go on forever like that. she stood and listened, relishing the idea that in this space around her just now there were no thoughts or feelings for the future.

the key to failure is trying to please everybody

after i’m dead i’d rather have people ask why i have no monument than why i have one

you kin tame a wild-cat and a panther you kin tame anything, son, excusin’ the human tongue

i never seek to defeat the man i am fighting. i seek to defeat his confidence. a mind troubled doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. two men are equals – true equals – only when they both have equal confidence. – admiral yamamoto isokoru

to get off as being temporarily insane is blasphemy. if one kills another merely animal instinct. but to go into someone’s home and redecorate, that is considered to be temporarily insane.

a man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. by contrast, a woman’s presence defines what can and cannot be done to her

if sound waves carry on to infinity, where are their screams now? somewhere in the galaxy, moving forever toward the psalms.