Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
