All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

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

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

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

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

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