Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
