Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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'.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Intelligence is a moral category.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
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.
What you're thinking is what you're becoming.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
