Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Desire is the very essence of man.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

Criticize the act, not the person.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.