Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.