There is a time to speak up, and a time to be silent. A time to read and a time to write. A time to learn and a time to teach. A time to listen and a time to be heard. A time to lose and a time to gain. And for all of these things the time is now....
Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion....
Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside....
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected....
Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die....
We always forget that it is not quantity of life but the quality of life....
I believe you can't feel real joy unless you've felt pain. You can't have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. And you can't know what it's like to feel noble until you know what it's like to feel undignified....
I think it's a false trade-off to say quality time versus quantity - you have to have both....
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity....