Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

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

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

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

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

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

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.