Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.