I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Desire is the very essence of man.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.