Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

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

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.