There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

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

The object of the superior man is truth.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.