Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

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

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.