When you are avoiding your pain you are really only avoiding your growth.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

I believe there are certain things that cannot be bought -- loyalty, friendship, health, love and an American League pennant.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.