The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

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

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.