"I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free firewood' and my first thought was 'Who was Firewood and what did he do?'"

"Every time you get angry, you poison your own system."

"We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat."

"The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong."

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

"To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy."

"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side."

"Ye are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot be hid."

"There are no dirty words, only dirty minds."

"There is a language in the world that everyone understands. The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired."

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour."

"You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last."