It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

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.

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

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.