Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
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.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
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.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
