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

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

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

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

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

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.