Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

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

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.