Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

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

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Desire is the very essence of man.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

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.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.