There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

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

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Criticize the act, not the person.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

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

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

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.