At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Humility is attentive patience.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

I am not now That which I have been.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast