I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

A leader leads by example not by force.

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

You should be the change that you want to see in the world.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

風　Swift as the wind
林　Quiet as the forest
火　Conquer like the fire
山　Steady as the mountain

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

Hate the sin and love the sinner. Traditional saying - not first said by him.

All warfare is based on deception.

Why change the world when we can change ourselves?

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.