Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

A jug fills drop by drop.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

A good liar must have a good memory.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.