Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.