Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

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.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

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.

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

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

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

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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