Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

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

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

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.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

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