I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Be curious, not judgmental.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
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'.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
