He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
The mode of living which is founded upon a total harmlessness towards all life forms or (in case of actual necessity) upon a minimum of such harm is the highest morality.
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
A detached human being is the one who is neither in the race to achieve
something nor is anxious to renounce anything.
-Deep Trivedi
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
-George MacDonald