“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.”

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.

Don’t go through life trying to please everyone. If you try to keep every person happy, the one person that won’t be happy is you.

Worry is interest paid before it’s due.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.