Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

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

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.