Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

What's done can't be undone.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

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.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Time wounds all heels.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

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

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.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

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.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.