Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

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

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.