Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.