Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy

This is something else that is drilled into us in the military: Make sure you know who your replacement is, in case you become a casualty. So you have to have depth within an organization.

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

Trends don't mean very much to me. They come, they go, they turn around.

In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

I don't get drunk, I get a little happy on rare occasion, and I'm probably dancing if I'm that happy.

From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.

Men's vows are women's traitors