A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Intelligence is a moral category.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
