If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

With books I slip out of my life and am with the choicest company.

Everything is a work-in-progress.

Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and a lot more as a species; if we can learn to be fully what we actually already are; to reside in the inherent potential of what is possible for us, being human.

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.