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.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

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

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

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

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.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.