Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

A precedent embalms a principle.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.