If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

What's done can't be undone.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

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

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

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

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.

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

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

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.