A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Time wounds all heels.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.