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

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

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

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

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.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

None but ourselves can free our minds.