Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.
Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.
Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
The common person fears to think beyond the common.
The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.
The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.
Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.
There is no happiness outside of ourselves.
Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.
When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.
Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?
