The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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!
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.