Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.