The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

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

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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

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

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

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

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.