Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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 weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
A friend to all is a friend to none
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law