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

You always admire what you really don't understand.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

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

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.