He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

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

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.