It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

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

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

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.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

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