No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
A friend to all is a friend to none
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.