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.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

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.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact