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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

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