Happiness does not consist in self-love.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.

3 qualities of a good management

Speaking doesn´t make you a Leader, but if you have Leadership skills, people want to hear you speak.

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

Your bone shall remainYour flesh shall remain Your spirit shall remain

Commitment means losing yourself to gain something temporary. Nothing lasts. Not looks. Not love.

I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.

Maybe you shouldn't be working as a jailer in Guantánamo. Maybe that's why you feel spiritually unhealthy.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.