Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
I think, therefore I am.
There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
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.