Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.