Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Time wounds all heels.

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

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

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

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

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

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.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.