One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

The lie is a condition of life.

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.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

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

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.