Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

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.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

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

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

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

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.

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

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

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.

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.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe