Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Judge not unless you judge yourself.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.