It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

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

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

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

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.