The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

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

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

What's done can't be undone.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

The only real laughter comes from despair.