Your goodness is impediment in your way, so let your eyes be red with anger, and try to fight injustice with a firm hand.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

 It is my nature to be a friend of the friendless.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. 

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. 

Force always attracts men of low morality.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reached the mountaintop of our desires.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We found ourselves in a soup, when the waiter spilled the soup we ordered, on us!