He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
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.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.
The object of the superior man is truth.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
