All great achievements require time.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Resist much. Obey little.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Intelligence is a moral category.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.