I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

What can't be cured must be endured.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Appearances often are deceiving.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

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

For we walk by faith, not by sight

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.