Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

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.

A man is literally what he thinks.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

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.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.