Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Criticize the act, not the person.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Intelligence is a moral category.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

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.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.