The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

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.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.