The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

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

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.