Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.