If your bigotry is based on your religion, it doesn't justify your bigotry but invalidates your beliefs.

I used to judge people on how they treated me. But that was too easy a test. I now judge on how they treat others, those unlike them, the disadvantaged and downtrodden. Our true test comes when we have the power and how we choose to use it.

Those who seek to lead are the ones who must learn to follow. Those who lead by necessity are demonstrating their true qualities.

Our self-esteem is best reflected in how we treat others. For to disrespect others is to expect no respect from them.

We have to assume we have free will if only because that possibility exists.

Those who risk their lives just to find its value must ultimately be unhappy. for the valuation of a thing solely by its loss implies no joy in its mere possession.

Solitude is necessary to get the true measure of oneself. But without others we have no stick against which to measure.

Life is a blur of disconnected events. There is no path or purpose, no rhyme or reason. We are adrift on the winds of chance at the mercy of powers beyond our control.

Love is the feeling that bet conveys our humanity. Yet it involves the least amount of intellect.

Honesty is like armor. It takes strength to embrace it. But it's too easy to be enraptured by its cold brilliance that blocks out both good and bad.