Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
The only real laughter comes from despair.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
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.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
For we walk by faith, not by sight
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.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.