The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

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

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

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

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

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

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.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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

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

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.