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

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

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.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.