It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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'.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

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.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

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

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

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.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.