As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

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

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

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

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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

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

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.