We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

What's done can't be undone.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

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

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

A precedent embalms a principle.

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

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

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

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.