What can't be cured must be endured.

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

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

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

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

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

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

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.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

Think globally, act locally.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.