Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Judge not unless you judge yourself.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
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.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Be curious, not judgmental.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.