Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

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.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

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

Think globally, act locally.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

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.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

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