If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

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

You always admire what you really don't understand.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

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

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

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.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.