Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

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.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

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

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

None but ourselves can free our minds.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.