It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

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.

The ultimate purpose of a teacher is to teach students to think in a better way.

...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

It’s okay to get lost every once in a while, sometimes getting lost is how we find ourselves.

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.

I'm the worst person to tell anybody how to date.

Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.