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

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

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

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

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.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

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.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.