A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

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

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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?

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

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

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

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