When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.