You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame… back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

You can win over a greedy person by offering money, a proud person by cowering, a foolish one by agreeing with him; but you can only win over the wise with truth.

you can use the frustration and anger you feel as a focus of meditation... We tend not to remember our ability until we're thrust into sink-or-swim situations.

You can use a brass mirror to adjust your hat; you can use history as a way to foresee the rise and fall of empires.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

You can take your choice between God and Sex. If you choose both, you're a hypocrite; if neither, you get nothing.

You can only know what you have thought about and thinking has to be kindled like a fire. Reading can spark this kind of thinking when it forcibly imposes ideas on the mind foreign to it’s mood, beliefs, and prejudices.

You can only be kind or cruel if you have, and cherish, a self… Altruism is the other side of egoism.

You can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

You can never get enough of what you don't really want.

You can make a good living from sooth-saying but not from truth-saying

you can learn to live with death, to make yourself bigger than this loss. Then you an hold the sadness and not drown in sorrow.

You can keep an old tradition going only by renewing it in terms of current circumstances… When the world changes, the religion has to be transformed.

You can imprison a person, but not an idea. You can exile a person, but not an idea. You can kill a person, but not an idea.

You can imagine Herman Melville coming to his publisher with his new manuscript. They ask him what it's about, and he says, 'It's about a one-legged captain who's had his leg bitten off by a whale.' It wouldn't have sounded that promising. If a man cares intensely enough about tiddlywinks, his book about tiddlywinks will be a great novel.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.