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.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

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.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

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

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.