Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

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

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

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

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

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

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

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.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.