Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?

Peace is not the absence of intolerance Peace is a way of life with joy of tolerance.

A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.(from The General's Legacy)

The true soldier fights

Just love others for what they are and not what you want them to be.

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read - unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

We live in a world that someone can say anything about anyone and it can be seen as the truth.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

Figure out what you really love doing and use your strengths on a daily basis.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.