A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
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.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid