Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

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

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

The lie is a condition of life.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.