Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

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.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

A precedent embalms a principle.

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.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

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

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

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.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.