If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

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

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

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

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

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

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.