Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

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

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.