If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

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

Wisdom begins at the end.

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

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.