In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

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

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

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

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

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

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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