Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.