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'.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

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

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

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.

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

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

I think, therefore I am.

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

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.