Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

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

I think, therefore I am.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.