Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

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

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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