If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

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

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.