Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.
