We never see ourselves as others see us.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
The lie is a condition of life.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.