Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.