Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
What's done can't be undone.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
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.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.