Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

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

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

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

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!