Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Criticize the act, not the person.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!