Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

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.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Service is more important than self-gain.

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.

It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

I think that at the end of the day, when people understand the circumstances that led to the circumstances, they begin to sway their views.