Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

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

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.