What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

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.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

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

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Wisdom begins at the end.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.