“A person hears only what they understand.”

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.

If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.

If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.

The fundamental nature of jealousy and envy is a feeling of inadequacy. If you were really blissful, you should not be envious of anyone.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.

There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

World wide conversions; hospitals became temples where souls went to die.