Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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.

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

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

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Think globally, act locally.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.