It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
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.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.