A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

A friend to all is a friend to none

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

Think globally, act locally.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

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

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

I think, therefore I am.

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.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.