I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

The lie is a condition of life.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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