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

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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

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