Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

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

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

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.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.