Never make someone a priority who only considers you an option.

Keep your friends close...and your enemies closer.

Being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand.  The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant.  You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them.  If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

In the end its not the words of our enemies we remember but the silence of our friends

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.

We should take care not to make intellect our god.  It has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.  It cannot lead, it can only serve.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current.