Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

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.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

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.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

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

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.