The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

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

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

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

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.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

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