Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.
Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid.
It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know
It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.
People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.
No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.
In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas.
Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one.
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.
Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent, it comes out of mainstream Christianity, based on beliefs that have had outrageous human consequences in the past, and that I think are totally indefensible. In this case, they happen to lead to some of the most courageous, heroic, and honourable human action that's taking place anywhere in the world. Well, that's how life is, I guess. It doesn't come in neat little packages.