Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
Time wounds all heels.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
I think, therefore I am.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
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.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.