Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

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

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

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.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.