You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Wisdom begins at the end.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
