True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.