If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences.
Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most fundamentally human part of the soul.
We are all connected; to each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; to the rest of the universe, atomically.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe, like space and time.
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."