No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Who we are’ and ‘what is our own’ that we have to understand

A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve.

Thane Ealdian prowls the earth once more. Shutter your houses. Bar your doors. Offer him gold and women to satisfy his cravings. A black dragon is like the very devil himself.

And the roads called us to take the walk.

A day without someone to hold you or a day without someone to share, is a day easily forgotten.’ - Vera Richardson in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.