Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

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

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.