The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

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.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

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

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.