Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
The lie is a condition of life.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Wisdom begins at the end.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.