Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

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

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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

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

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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

Compassion is the basis of morality.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.