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.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

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

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Criticize the act, not the person.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

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.