Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

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

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

The cure for pain is in the pain.