The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...Dead silence.Literally dead.

The moment you realize yourself as the dreamer and the world as your own dream, you will attain salvation.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly.

The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.