Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

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

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Think globally, act locally.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.