Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.