Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

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.

The speaker cut short his speech not because he was asked to, but because he suddenly realised that he had nothing more to say!

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he is well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reached the mountaintop of our desires.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.