Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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

The only real laughter comes from despair.

A friend to all is a friend to none

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

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

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

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

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.