When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

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

All great achievements require time.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

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

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.