How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

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

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

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.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

A friend to all is a friend to none

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

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.