Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

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!

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

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.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.