The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

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

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.