There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

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

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

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Time wounds all heels.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.