The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

A problem well-put is half-solved.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.