There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
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?
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
All great achievements require time.