The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Appearances often are deceiving.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

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

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.