All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.