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.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

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

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

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!

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.