Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

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.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.