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

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

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

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

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

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.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

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

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.