You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

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

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.