All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

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.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.