If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
The lie is a condition of life.
Desire is the very essence of man.
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.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
The object of the superior man is truth.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
