Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

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

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

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

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.