Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.