In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

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

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

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!

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

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

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

The cure for pain is in the pain.