During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.

It is not about proving anything to the world. It is all about proving your capabilities to yourself and stretching your own boundaries.

It was once said that to hide something from prying eyes you must place it where people can see it.

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce I think I'm about a hundred thousand dollars short.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

What we were striving for was a kind of modified form of communism.

We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself.

How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!