Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

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

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

What's done can't be undone.

Time wounds all heels.

Wisdom begins at the end.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.