Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Think globally, act locally.
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
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!
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
