The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

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

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

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.