So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
