Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

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.

celebrate your happiness in limit so others not feel abashment.

The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.

Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.

So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.

Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.