I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

All great achievements require time.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

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.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.