Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

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.

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

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.