How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Friends, why do you scrape every stone to gather wealth,
and take so little care of your children,
to whom one day you will relinquish it all?

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have

If we agree on everything, only one of us is necessary.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent
human misery rather than avenge it?  

It is not power that corrupts, but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.