“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”

In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

Reason is no match for passion.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

To make this world a better place we need compassion but we also need accountability for our actions.

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

God doesn’t move until we move first.

Spirituality lies in what you do and how you do it and not what result you get.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

If you don’t like something don’t do it, and if you’re doing something then you better like it. It is as simple as that.

Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps, and whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.

The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.