Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.

One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.

That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me. . . What I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true law.

Work is the major instrument for conversion

I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.

The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Princeton had to offer, including engagement with the larger community. Page 148

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

God is the absolute truth...

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.