A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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