Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.