As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

A friend to all is a friend to none

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.