Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.