The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

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

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.