A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Desire is the very essence of man.