Turn your wounds into wisdom.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Criticize the act, not the person.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first