Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

A man is literally what he thinks.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.