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

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

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 impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.