If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

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

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

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

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

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

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

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

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.