Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

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

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