Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices. Walden

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!

A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.

When you look long into the abyss, the abyss looks into you.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness.