If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.
In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.
I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.
The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.