Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

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

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

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

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.