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

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

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

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.