Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

A precedent embalms a principle.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

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

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

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

Think globally, act locally.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.