“We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.”

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

You can only be free if I am free.

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him.

Whenever there comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

Shadow work is the path of the heart warrior.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

Depression is the absence of hope.

It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairy tale image of the world doesn’t match the reality.

Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.