Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

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

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

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

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

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.

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

Resist much. Obey little.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

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

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.