Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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

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

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.