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.
Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
