Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

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

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

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

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

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

None but ourselves can free our minds.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

The lie is a condition of life.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

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

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

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence