Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

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

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.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

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

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

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

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

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

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

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.