It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

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

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

The object of the superior man is truth.

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

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.