When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

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

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

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

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.