He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

What's done can't be undone.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

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

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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