Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

I think, therefore I am.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

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.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.