Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

I think, therefore I am.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

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.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.