Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

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

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

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

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.