Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

All progress is experimental.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Life seeks for willing soul. You can be the one.

Dance with your rhythm.

Don't allow others to put a cap on you. Don't simply agree when someone draws your own finishing line. You're the captain of your destiny!!!

Aging is something! It always makes you remember yesterday!

Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.

If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding.

The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

I tried to smile like I wasn't about to die.