Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.

One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.

You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

I don't read the comments anymore, unless they are moderated. Which is not to say censored, but I don't need to read someone saying, "You're ugly."

When we cooperate, everybody wins.