Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Intelligence is a moral category.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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