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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

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.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

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

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.