The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.