You always admire what you really don't understand.

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.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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

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

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

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

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.