It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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.

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

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

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

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.