Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

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

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

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.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.