Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

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

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

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

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

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

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.