Think globally, act locally.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

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

Be curious, not judgmental.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.