What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

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?

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

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.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

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

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.