The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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

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

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Time wounds all heels.

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

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.