He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Think globally, act locally.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Intelligence is a moral category.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

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

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

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

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

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

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

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