One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.
There are two ways of life, one leading to righteousness, which brings happiness, and the other to unrighteousness, which produces misery. One leads to kindness, mercy and sympathy, the other to hatred and cruelty; one to tolerance and the other to i...
One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food.
One day of hunger is not starvation.
If it's not one thing it's another.
One is born, one dies; the land grows.
The less one thinks, the more one speaks.
No one is unhappier than the one who believes in happiness.
Those who are at one regarding food are at one in life.
One does not go to Tula with one's own samovar.
One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.
The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven’t.
One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
