Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

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

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first