Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

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.

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

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I think, therefore I am.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.