Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

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

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

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

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

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

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.