Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

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.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.