I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.