In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Appearances often are deceiving.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.