The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

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

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

The lie is a condition of life.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

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

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic