Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
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.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
A friend to all is a friend to none
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
The object of the superior man is truth.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.