Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense-world into the sea of peace that is the sage.
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.