Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.