Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.