We never see ourselves as others see us.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

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.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

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

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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

The object of the superior man is truth.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Appearances often are deceiving.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.