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

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

What's done can't be undone.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.