Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.