Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Common sense is not so common.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

A lie cannot live.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.