The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

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

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Resist much. Obey little.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.