Desire is the very essence of man.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

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.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

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

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

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

None but ourselves can free our minds.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

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.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

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

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.