Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
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.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
