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

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

We never see ourselves as others see us.