It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

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

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

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.

What's done can't be undone.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

You always admire what you really don't understand.