Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

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

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

I think, therefore I am.

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