It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

A friend to all is a friend to none

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

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

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.