The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
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.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Intelligence is a moral category.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
