You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

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

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

A man is literally what he thinks.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

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

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.