There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Desire is the very essence of man.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
