Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.