Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

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

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

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

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.