Where you stand depends on where you sit.

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

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

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

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

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Appearances often are deceiving.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.