Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Be curious, not judgmental.

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

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Desire is the very essence of man.

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

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

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.