I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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

The object of the superior man is truth.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

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.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

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.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

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