You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

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.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

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

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.