When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

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.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

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

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

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

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

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