Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
I think, therefore I am.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.