And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

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

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

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.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

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

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.