Time wounds all heels.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

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

Desire is the very essence of man.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

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

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

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

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.