I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

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.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

What can't be cured must be endured.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

A precedent embalms a principle.

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

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

I think, therefore I am.

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

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

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

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.