Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
The object of the superior man is truth.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.