The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

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

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'.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

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.