Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

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

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The object of the superior man is truth.