If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

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

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.