All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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

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.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

What can't be cured must be endured.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.