Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

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

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

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

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.