Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

What can't be cured must be endured.

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'.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

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

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.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

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.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.