No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

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

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.