The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Resist much. Obey little.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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