Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Intelligence is a moral category.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

A friend to all is a friend to none

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Appearances often are deceiving.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

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

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

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

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.