Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

The lie is a condition of life.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Time wounds all heels.

A friend to all is a friend to none

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.