Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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

You always admire what you really don't understand.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

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

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

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

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.