Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.