I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Every man's memory is his private literature.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

A lie never lives to be old.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.