“All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?”
“His formulated thoughts are gems for the modern world.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
“Look good because you want the world to look good.”
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
“We talk so much about leaving a better planet to our kids, that we forget to leave better kids to our planet.”
“Whatever we see out there in the world is but a reflection of what is in there within our mind.”
“You have a better chance of changing the world if your own house is in order; but, you can make an exception for the edge cases (e.g., Martin Luther King, Gandhi).”
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching. Love like you'll never be hurt. Sing like there's nobody listening. And live like it's heaven on earth.”
“Society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore.”
“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”
“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
“There are 3 types of leaders in this world: the leader that's loved; the leader that's hated; and the leader that people barely know he exists. When the work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled.”
“Unlike the earth, the sea is not separated from the sky; it radiates under the sun and seems to die with it every evening. And when the sun has vanished, the sea keeps longing for it, keeps preserving a bit of its luminous reminiscence in the face of the uniformly somber earth.”
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.”
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”