Intelligence is a moral category.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

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

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

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

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

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

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

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

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

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.