Turn your wounds into wisdom.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

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.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Intelligence is a moral category.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.