Stubbornness destroys good advice.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who permanently live in the house but by the travellers passing by!