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.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

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.

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

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Criticize the act, not the person.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.