True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

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

The object of the superior man is truth.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

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

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

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

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.