And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Resist much. Obey little.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.