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

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Think globally, act locally.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

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

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.