Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

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

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

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.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.