“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.

Roads were made for journeys not destinations

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.

War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.

When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

As far as the laws of existence are concerned, there is no good and bad, no crime and punishment. It is just that for every action, there is a consequence.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.