"We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are."
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"If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos."
"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
"I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare."
"Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength."
"Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."
"True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass."
"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."
"Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest."
"Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore."
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving."
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
"If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day."
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."
"Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it."
"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens."
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."
"Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep."
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."
"All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it."