There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

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

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

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

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.