Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

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

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.

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

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

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

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.