Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

Hope will get you through the day and love shall carry you through the night. A couple of life's pillars.

While you were busy working on your ego, she was busy working on her soul.

Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.

You are not anyone or anything in particular. You are awareness itself. You don't have a particular form. You contain everything or you are contained by all things.

Most people don't want to leave their wife and children behind but many people seem to want to take leave of themselves.

A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.

Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.