A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

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.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

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

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

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

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact