Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

A man is literally what he thinks.

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

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

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.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

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

All great achievements require time.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

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