To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

What's done can't be undone.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

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

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!

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Resist much. Obey little.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.