Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Intelligence is a moral category.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.