Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

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

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

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

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Time wounds all heels.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.