Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

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

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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?

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.