Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

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.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

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

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.