Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

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

Time wounds all heels.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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 is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

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

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

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'.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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