"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."

“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.”

“I know what I want, and where to go.”

Source : "Salazar: biographical study" by Franco Nogueira, Atlantis Publishing, (p. 339), 1977.

“It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).”

“Morality is not a spectator sport.”

Source : Kevin Ryan, Thomas Lickona (1992). “Character Development in Schools and Beyond”, p.356, CRVP

“In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being”

“States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.”

“Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations are really present thoughts. No one has ever lived in any moment except the present.”

Source : Emmet Fox (1946). “Make your life worth while”, Harper San Francisco

“We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.”