Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Every man must ceaselessly struggle upwards. What was life but a warfare and a stranger's sojourn?

A little self-knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

For our soul is raised out of nature through the truly sublime$$$ sways with high spirits$$$ and is filled with proud joy$$$ as if itself had created what it hears.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Memory is a snare$$$ pure and simple; it alters$$$ it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence

I would rather be a little nobody$$$ then to be a evil somebody.