All the teaching of all the schools since time began has not settled whether society shall be governed by the power of the brute, or the wisdom of the sage.

The heat of the sun has a very different effect on petal of a rose than it does on the head of a banker.

Little of the past can be known, little of the present settled, and little of the future anticipated, yet life pushes us on unprepared into choices between good and evil. Why can't life just leave us alone for a bit?

Never carry a quarrel into the dark. Let it end with the setting sun.

YOUTH, COME TO ME TO SPEAK OF LOVE; ONE MORE BLAZE OF PASSION BEFORE COLD WINTER'S MOON SHALL RISE TO DRAG US BACK AMONG THE DYING EMBERS WHERE OUR PASSIONS ONCE MET. THE FIRE WE SET CANNOT HAVE DIED WITHOUT A TRACE. EMBERS MUST REMAIN WHERE WE CAN MEET TO SET ANOTHER.

True wealth is not in the number of one's possessions but the fewness of his wants.

A fundamental error of the age is belief that the knower can be separated from the known.

The howling voice and stamping boots of power can never drown out the spirit's need to sing.

Love is no moralist. It does not ask what is good or bad, right or wrong, better or worse. Love simply loves.

Knowledge is never in doubt; wisdom is never certain. It takes a mean petty person to never doubt.

Education has nothing to do with transmission of dogma, assertions of certainty or raking over ashes of the past that now dominates our schooling. It has everything to do with enflaming young minds to pursue questions not yet fully understood but essential to a better future.

Commerce does not care for real people, what it wants is corporation people. Real people live for meaning. Corps people live only for profit. Might as well spell it as it is; Corpse people.

Better that a heart should break a hundred times than never risk to love.

A burden shouldered is less onerous than one dragged.

Somber, solemn people carry more ballast than sail.

Mankind cannot be thought to be evolutions crowning achievement so long as he continues to rush about laying waste to the planet and all therein in blind lust for wealth and power. It seems a death wish, for when we destroy that on which life depends we are destroying ourselves.

The more we know, the more mysterious life becomes. Knowing must be a form of ignorance, since wisdom comes from doubt.

You can't make a good child by beating and abusing a bad one, but you can make a bad one by beating and abusing a good one.

Have not power and wealth, from the beginning of time, decried every step in human progress as heretical and treasonous? Have they not consistently defended tyranny and heinous crimes to bring about ever increasing power and wealth as necessary for the common good?

Compared to the activities of the gigantic, global, commercial Corporations, bank robbery is a trivial, and at times, even noble activity.