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

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

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.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.