If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Time wounds all heels.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.