Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Criticize the act, not the person.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.