I don’t want to do anything I have to do, even if I want to do it. Compulsion takes the fun out of it.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.

I think eulogies are wasted on the dead. It’s the living who need to hear kind words spoken about them.

Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.

A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who’s in crisis?