Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

We Burmese, ' he began, 'are experts at looking for what's not there. It's something you should learn to do too. You must look for what's missing and learn how to find the truth in these absences.

Don't judge me by my mistakes, judge me by the implications they had.

The only difference between wise and ignorant is that a wise use his mind right now and literate keep it for the future use.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.

Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.