Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

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

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

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.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

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

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

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Be curious, not judgmental.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

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