The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
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.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.