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

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

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

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.

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

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible