Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
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'.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Judge not unless you judge yourself.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.