Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

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

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.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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.