You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

The lie is a condition of life.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

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

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

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