Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

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

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

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

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.