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

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

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.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.