Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Time wounds all heels.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
A person who spends more than he earns is a fool
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Appearances often are deceiving.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.