Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

I never thought it would be easy to serve God, " she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Only fools prefer the past!

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Worry is the greatest seed [cause] for the worldly life because worrying is the greatest egoism. If the egoism leaves, then worries will go away.

If there’s one shade a woman of colour can’t wear it’s got to be the one everyone expects, hasn’t it?

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check one keenly watching the other.

The future is always beginning now.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.