Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
Wisdom begins at the end.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
All great achievements require time.