Be curious, not judgmental.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

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

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

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

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

All great achievements require time.

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.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.