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.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
The lie is a condition of life.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.