Appearances often are deceiving.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

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

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!