One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.
I think, therefore I am.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.