I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

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

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

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.

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

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.