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

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

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

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

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

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

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

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.