Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

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

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

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

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

I think, therefore I am.