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

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

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'.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

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

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

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