For we walk by faith, not by sight
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
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.
Wisdom begins at the end.
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.
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 be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.