Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

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

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

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

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

A man is literally what he thinks.