Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

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

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Resist much. Obey little.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

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

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

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.