One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
