People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can’t. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.