Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Do the best you can, with what you can, while you can, and success in inevitable.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

If Not You, Who Else?

What regresses, never progresses.