I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

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.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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.

What's done can't be undone.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.