If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
Criticize the act, not the person.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
