It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Criticize the act, not the person.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

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.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.