“Ask advice of him who governs himself well.”

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do.

We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one’s own.

The moment is timeless.

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.

Never listen to the advice of someone who is not where you want to be. 

My mother always used to say, “don’t sit around and complain about things, do something.” I’ve tried to follow that advice every day and live by the example she set.

The work of those who do tomorrow may come, but tomorrow never comes.

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

The secret of peace is to listen to more music & less advice.

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.