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

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

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

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

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

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

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.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.