The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Appearances often are deceiving.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

The object of the superior man is truth.

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

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Think globally, act locally.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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.

Time wounds all heels.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.