A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

A friend to all is a friend to none

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

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

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

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

Time wounds all heels.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.