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

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Appearances often are deceiving.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

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

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

What can't be cured must be endured.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.