Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
A man is literally what he thinks.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
