Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

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

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

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.