We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
The object of the superior man is truth.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.