Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.