No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

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

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

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

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

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Resist much. Obey little.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.