The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

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.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Desire is the very essence of man.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

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