The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.