A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

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.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.