Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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.
If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
A precedent embalms a principle.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.