All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
