Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

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

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

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

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

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

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