Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Desire is the very essence of man.

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

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

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

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

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

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

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.