Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
A man is literally what he thinks.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
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?
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Wisdom begins at the end.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.