A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

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.

Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

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.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

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

If you are going through hell, keep going.

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

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

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.