Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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.

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

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

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.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

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.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.