Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

I am not young enough to know everything.

What goes up must come down.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

We all owe death a life.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.