A person who spends more than he earns is a fool
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Resist much. Obey little.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.