The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.