I think, therefore I am.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Be curious, not judgmental.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?