Compassion is the basis of morality.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle