Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Time wounds all heels.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

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

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

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

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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

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

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

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

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.