Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

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

What can't be cured must be endured.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are