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

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.

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.

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Letter to Harry S. Truman.

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.

I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.

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

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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.

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

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

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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

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.

I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.