The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

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.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.