All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

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.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

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.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

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

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.