You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

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

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Resist much. Obey little.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

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

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

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

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.