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.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
A friend to all is a friend to none
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.