What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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.

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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

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.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.