Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
