We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
Think globally, act locally.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
We never see ourselves as others see us.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.