It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Desire is the very essence of man.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

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

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid