Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Daring life, graceful living.

Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men.

Not all tear ducts worked the same. People, as Firdaus learned, cried the hardest when experiencing mixed emotions.

I am no longer hesitant.I am ready.I am fearless.

The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.

Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".