Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

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

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

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.