Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.