Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

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

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

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

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.