The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

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

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.

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