Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
For we walk by faith, not by sight
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
A man is literally what he thinks.
