Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

What can't be cured must be endured.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.