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

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Think globally, act locally.