It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

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.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

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

Criticize the act, not the person.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

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

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.