You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
A friend to all is a friend to none
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
