What's done can't be undone.

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

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

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.