No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

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.

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

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.