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

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

Wisdom begins at the end.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

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

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.