Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

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

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

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

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

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

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.