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

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

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

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.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.