Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

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

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

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.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

All great achievements require time.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.