A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

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

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

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

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

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it