The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

A friend to all is a friend to none

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

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.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

I think, therefore I am.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.