The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

A precedent embalms a principle.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

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

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

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

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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