Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

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

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

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

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

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

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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.