Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

A precedent embalms a principle.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

A man is literally what he thinks.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.