I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

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

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

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

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

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