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

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

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

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

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

A man is literally what he thinks.