If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

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

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

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.