Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

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

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

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

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.