As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The lie is a condition of life.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

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.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

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

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.