Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

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.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

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

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

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

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.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.