Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

We never see ourselves as others see us.