Wisdom begins at the end.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

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

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.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

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

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.