It takes a great man to be a good listener.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

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

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.