Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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 impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

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!

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

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

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

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.