He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.