Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

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

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Be curious, not judgmental.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

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.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.