One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
What's done can't be undone.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.