Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

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

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

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

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.