Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

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

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.