“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

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

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

If you don’t want to do something,don’t impose on others.

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Don’t do unto others what you don’t want done unto you.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

The spirit for me is the eternal self. And when one incarnates, an aspect comes with that incarnation, that’s called the soul. And together the mind, the emotional body, and the soul form the energy field that lives within this thing called the human body.

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.

Is there another human out there made from the same lightening as me that I have crashed into yet?

I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.