The hard part is doing it. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information. It is there all the time. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Reason is always what someone else has got to say.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. If it's very painful to you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.