The only real laughter comes from despair.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Intelligence is a moral category.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

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

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.