You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

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.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

A friend to all is a friend to none

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.