Wisdom begins at the end.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Resist much. Obey little.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
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.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.