The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.

Allow motion to equal emotion.