All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.