I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

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

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.