A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.