He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

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.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Time makes more converts than reason.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.