If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Nothing is our except time.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Disturb my sleep but darling don't dare disturb my dreams!

Committing to a goal does not always bring action, yet committing to an action will invariably bring you to your goal.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.

People only do their best at things they truly enjoy

Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.