To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

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

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.