Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

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.

Time wounds all heels.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.