Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

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

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

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

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.