Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.

The world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

You're on your own out there with ten mates.

We get a lot of cheese, no mice with that.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.