He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The lie is a condition of life.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Wisdom begins at the end.

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

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

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.