"Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax."

"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."

"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened."

"One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him."