Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.
One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.
There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.
We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.
The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.
It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.