However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!