“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

There are no failures. Just experiences and your reactions to them.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Add four to one hundred, multiply by eight, and then add sixty-two thousand. The result is approximately the circumference of a circle of diameter twenty thousand.

Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.