Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

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

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

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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