“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

Genuine love should first be directed at oneself – if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can oftentimes arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Your success is not determined by your circumstances; it's determined by your mindset and actions in spite of them.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Knowledge has three degrees — opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Blind imitation of the victor by the vanquished is a general rule.