To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

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

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

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Wisdom begins at the end.

The lie is a condition of life.

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

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.