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

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

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

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

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

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.