It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.