It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Intelligence is a moral category.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

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

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

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

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

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

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.