There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.