Intelligence is a moral category.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
The object of the superior man is truth.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
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.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
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.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law