Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Time wounds all heels.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
What's done can't be undone.
