He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
A man is literally what he thinks.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
A precedent embalms a principle.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
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.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.