Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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

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

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

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

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

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

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

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

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.