Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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

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

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

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

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

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.

The lie is a condition of life.