"The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress."
Faith
"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master."
Technology
"Science is organized knowledge. Art is organized life."
Science
"Suffering is the price of progress."
Perseverance
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
Gratitude
"Creativity is the most intensely selfish of all activities."
Creativity
"War is the science of destruction."
War
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Kindness
"Solitude is the beginning of all freedom."
Solitude
"Literature is the most noble of all the arts."
Literature
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Power
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
Motivation
"Inspiration cannot be willed into existence."
Inspiration
"Relationships are the laboratory of the soul."
Relationships
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Philosophy
"I want to be forgotten and abandoned."
Solitude
"Every person has an instinct to create, and when allowed the freedom to do so, will naturally express themselves."
Creativity
"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."
Wisdom
"In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself."
Solitude
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being."
Health
"The only way out is through."
Perseverance
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere."
Imagination
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Politics
"The greatest threat to freedom is an ignorant populace."
Freedom
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and greet each other."
Love
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Courage
"Life is like a box of matches, the game's too short and the stakes too high."
Life
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
Success
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Motivation
"Faith is not about everything turning out okay. Faith is about being okay no matter how things turn out."
Faith