To see what is right, and not do it is the worst cowardice.

In everyone's life, at some time,our inner fire goes out.It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; is what the small man seeks in others.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

It takes a great deal of braveryto stand up to our enemies,but just as muchto stand up to our friends.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

No one loses anyone,because no one owns anyone.That is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the worldwithout owning it.

If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Open your mind before your mouth.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfills its destiny.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.