If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

Words are the voice of the heart.

To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.