Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

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

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

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

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe