A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

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

Time wounds all heels.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

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

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

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