I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.