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

Time wounds all heels.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

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

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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

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

The cure for pain is in the pain.

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

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

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

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

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

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

A man is literally what he thinks.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.