None but ourselves can free our minds.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

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

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.