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

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Intelligence is a moral category.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.