Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

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

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

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.

A friend to all is a friend to none

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.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.