“We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.”
“The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.”
“Self-improvement begins with self-acceptance. All of life, everything else, has led up to this. This is your work now. It is the final step. Go for it.”
“If you put fences around people, you get sheep.”
“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
“Character is doing the right thing when no-one is watching.”
“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
“To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.”
