I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.
By doing good we become good.
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukaemia.
Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.