A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

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

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.