Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Live to the point of tears.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.