Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

The day of individual happiness has passed

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.