Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

God's decisions are always mysterious, but they are always in our favour.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.

I never, never ever make a charge without supporting it. You may not agree with me, but I always offer tremendous amount of support.

I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15 hours and slam in The Bridge on the River Kwai or something.