Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

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

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.