Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

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.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

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

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

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.