And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

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

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

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

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

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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.

A friend to all is a friend to none

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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

A precedent embalms a principle.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.