Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

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.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.