Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Judge not unless you judge yourself.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Criticize the act, not the person.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.