True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
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.
Judge not unless you judge yourself.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.