We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.