Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

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.

Hard work without purpose seldom leads to success.

I don't just want to ban The Bomb. I want to ban all bombs, whatever, and all bombers, whoever, and all bombings, whyever. There have to be better ways of saying no and making changes.

Your Majesty, ” Durzo said gravely. “A man of your stature’s cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears.” - Durzo Blint

Ignorance is relatively easy to cure

My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.

I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief.