No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

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

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

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

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.