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

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

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

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

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.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.