To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God.
O soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically…Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
