Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Time wounds all heels.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.