Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
Appearances often are deceiving.
What's done can't be undone.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.