Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

I think, therefore I am.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

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

The lie is a condition of life.

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

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

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

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.