Excerpts of Citations

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

~David Brin

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.

~Aprocrypha

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

~Wayne Gretzky

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is alway...

~Carlos Castaneda

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

~Carlos Castaneda

You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her bre...

~Kahlil Gibran

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a p...

~Viktor Frankl

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, giv...

~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

~Mark Twain

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives ...

~Carlos Castaneda

By their openness, people dedicated to the truth live in the open, and through the exercise of their courage to live in the open, they become free from fear.

~M. Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we ...

~M. Scott Peck

I define love thus: "The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

~M. Scott Peck

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

~Anthony de Mello

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

~Alfred North Whitehead