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

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Time wounds all heels.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

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

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Wisdom begins at the end.

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

The lie is a condition of life.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.