Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

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

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

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

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The object of the superior man is truth.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.