It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

So doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? You purchase a ticket when you're born. And it's all just random whether you get a good ticket or a bad ticket. It's all just luck.

Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

We love our country, not because it is perfect in everything, but it manages to touch our heart despite all its imperfections in everything!

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

When I talk to idiots, I get loud!

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.